wellington_street wrote:^ I believe this will be done under WABN funding.

Yes, it was in the short list of priority works so I was expecting the same too.

However, now that the great concrete barriers are in place I think it is less likely than it was before. Perhaps the planners lost their copy!

I had a quick squiz to the east of the walls running parallel to the two roads and it will not be as easy as before. A quick and dirty solution would be to clear a few trees, do a fair bit of realignment and fill in some gaps in the wall.

Or alternately resite some of the nice new walls closer to the roads, less realignment and lesser work on trees.

I hope I am right but I am guessing that now they have put those big walls in place, they are less likely to do the proper job.

I particularly enjoyed the four wheel drive track at the Leach Hwy lights yesterday - there's only been room for one rider at the crossing for a couple of days, but the three foot drop and climb with the limestone breaking up made it a lot more fun.......

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chuckchunder wrote:I particularly enjoyed the four wheel drive track at the Leach Hwy lights yesterday - there's only been room for one rider at the crossing for a couple of days, but the three foot drop and climb with the limestone breaking up made it a lot more fun.......

Haha, yeah, I made a comment about that a while back, wondering how well it would hold up after some rain. The answer, as expected, is not so well. I was pretty glad I'm riding on some 28c tyres, cause that was some seriously loose and soft sand.

Yeah, a morning or two after that limestone went down I came through heading south at the same time as two fair-sized bunches. Picture if you will, 20+ bikes clipping, wobbling, slipping and sliding all over that at once, with a solitary pedestrian coming the other way with this face on:

Lizzy wrote:Yeah, a morning or two after that limestone went down I came through heading south at the same time as two fair-sized bunches. Picture if you will, 20+ bikes clipping, wobbling, slipping and sliding all over that at once, with a solitary pedestrian coming the other way with this face on:

The new PSP at South Street will be opened up in late December/early January, and will pass underneath the new realigned exit ramp.The footpath closure on the north-eastern side of South Street will remain in place until late January, following the discovery of unknown electrical services which haverequired relocation by Western Power. This has resulted in unavoidable delays to noisewall construction in this area.The closure of the PSP underneath Leach Highway will remain in place until early February 2013 due to numerousdesign issues at this location. The latest issues require parts of the retaining wall to be demolished prior to thecompletion of the car park access road and re-opening of the PSP.The PSP under Parry Avenue will be opened in late December.

Nice early Christmas present, Parry Ave underpass was opened back up this afternoon! Much safer than it was before, though watch out just to the south, when you hit the old section of path. Definitely a bit rough through there after 1+ year of heavy equipment driving over it. I'm guessing that section will get repaved as part of the realignment between South St. and Parry in the next year or two, so not worth redoing now just to tear it up later.

Man, it will be nice not having to worry about the morons who used to cut that blind corner all the time.

Does anyone know when they are planning to smooth and resurface the Kwinny PSP from narrows to the start of the red asphalt path about 2/3 the way down to the raffles? Getting very bumpy in a number of places, especially where the recent river wall works were carried out.

jasonlheath wrote:Does anyone know when they are planning to smooth and resurface the Kwinny PSP from narrows to the start of the red asphalt path about 2/3 the way down to the raffles? Getting very bumpy in a number of places, especially where the recent river wall works were carried out.

In the past it may have been listed a few times but loses the funding drops out if there is no start by end of the finanical year it goes back to the end of the list.

Funding for RSPs has, I gather, been dropping back for a few years (though all of a sudden the government seems to have discovered a desire to make this stuff an election issue).

I don't imagine that there is anything hard and fast though I expect that Roland will have some idea of that.

It looks like the original bit along the Kwinana PSP under South St has been re-opened this arvo, the gates at both ends north and south of South St were opened. Probably very necessary as they've also opened up that "construction site" road that was part of our detour, this now leads into the train station's original south-west carpark so there'll be a lot of vehicular traffic up the rise to that roundabout and those traffic lights. Plus a bit of construction to happen north of South St. I don't care if we now have the Murdoch path back. We just need the Leach Hwy/Bull Creek station bit fixed now, thanks.

With the South Street Underpass now open does anyone know the best way for me to get from South Street onto the PSP to travel South? I leave my bike in the bike sheds in the East carpark of Murdoch Station. I was planning on continuing to go through the new road near the hospital but as was just mentioned it is likely to be quite busy now.

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So when I went past on Sat it wasn't open in the morning and I then went the "normally" detour and had to turn around and then spotted the signs to go thru the close streets.Now just need Leach HWY one to open back up

The PSP around South Street/Murdoch station is now open. It is great to see they spent millions of dollars or the great freeway upgrade, providing smooth wide lanes and sweeping corners for freeway users.

They must not have had a lot of money left for the PSP, because what we have got is is a a bumpy surface with unfinished edges, a blind corner at the Murdoch station entry point, fencing with unfilled post holes and debris, including glass, from where they haven't been bothered to sweep the path before re-opening. Nice work.

I look forward to the Leach Highway path being completed - sometime in 2015 at the rate thay are going !

That widening of the freeway exit at Leach Hwy had recently resulted in the ramp from the PSP where you cross the exit being torn up and replaced with something temporary, first dirt then various challenging bitumen humps. This morning they finished the new ramp in concrete, the final product and they won't revisit that site. Expect that it'll be opened late this morning after the concrete dries, you might in the meantime (the early morning commute) find that area still roped off and traffic marshals about the place detouring you. Only for the morning.

However we still wait on the PSP to be restored past Bullcreek station and this whole detour to be finished with. Much waiting already.

just4tehhalibut wrote:That widening of the freeway exit at Leach Hwy had recently resulted in the ramp from the PSP where you cross the exit being torn up and replaced with something temporary, first dirt then various challenging bitumen humps. This morning they finished the new ramp in concrete, the final product and they won't revisit that site. Expect that it'll be opened late this morning after the concrete dries, you might in the meantime (the early morning commute) find that area still roped off and traffic marshals about the place detouring you. Only for the morning.

However we still wait on the PSP to be restored past Bullcreek station and this whole detour to be finished with. Much waiting already.

By the width of it, the part passing the Bull Creek stations and under Leach Highway looks like including both a road and a path. At least I HOPE they are including the path.

Being a passenger going up Kwinana Fwy yesterday what I think remains to be done from the Freeway side is finishing off that Limestone wall they are building. Could still see the path there where it was.

They'v just re-opened the bits of path leading off the northwest side of South St onto the Kwinana PSP. In other words you can again enter the PSP from South St where the traffic lights are instead of going through backstreets or using the elevator off the Murdoch train station.

Just be aware that works for Murdoch Drive widening are impacting on South St in the vicinity of the hospital still. Currently the dividing strip has been bulldozed out and the crossing at Urbahns St midway on South St between the freeway and Murdoch lights, that's in detour mode.

I noticed that there were a few white marker flags with blue spray paint near the psp, a couple of hundred metres north of Mt Henry bridge. Could this be part of the widening and straightening of the path?

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